@ObiWayneKenobi said:
So which industries as a developer/IT pro should we avoid like the plague? In my experience I'm adding both any kind of law and medical/healthcare to my list; these places almost always seem to be full of WTFery and hacks upon hacks because of the outright crazy amount of legal things they need to be able to address and stop on a dime if some new wacky requirement comes.
Healthcare isn't that bad (from my point of view) though yes, government requirements can be all over the spectrum from "it's about time" to "dude, wait, what?". It's really a mixed bag.
My favorite was some testing scenarios the government provided to illustrate how certain required statistics were to be calculated. One of their test patients was admitted to the hospital, died, ... and then was readmitted a few days later for another hospital stay. Now, maybe our competitors are better at serving the unique needs of the Undead-American population, but for some crazy reason our software believes you generally don't intend to admit a dead man.